Spherical-homoscedastic distributions: The equivalency of spherical and normal distributions in classification

Journal of Machine Learning Research

Volumn 8, Issue , 2007, Pages 1583-1623

  Hamsici, Onur C ^a   Martinez, Aleix M ^a  

^a Ohio State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer vision; Directional data; Linear and non linear classifiers; Norm normalization; Normal distributions; Spherical distributions

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER VISION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; VECTORS;

DIRECTIONAL DATA; NORM NORMALIZATION; NORMAL DISTRIBUTIONS; SPHERICAL DISTRIBUTIONS;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

EID: 34547688867     PISSN: 15324435     EISSN: 15337928     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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